Enjoy your "rarest disease we vaccinate against". - an idiot
"Enjoy your whooping cough" would be over a million times more accurate snarky criticism, but everyone is brainwashed on vaccines. Only the antivax people have ever engaged in critical thinking on the subject. That doesn't mean there aren't antivax idiots. It means there aren't well informed pro vax people.
The biggest myth perpetuated is vaccinated = immune. If that was true, we wouldn't do booster shots. They just usually make your immune system more prepared for the real disease. So when there is a measles outbreak and the media says it's because the people weren't vaccinated, that's not entirely truthful. Vaccination nerfs outbreak rates and severity. It doesn't mean you can go swimming in rivers in India. Don't expect sanity from media companies funded by pharmaceutical companies though.
Depends. Flu vaccines are exactly like that since it both mutates quickly and there are several kinds out there. As I understand, though, most other vaccines using booster shots are there because your body does eventually lose whatever resistance it had to the disease in the first place. But even then, you experience a much milder form of the disease and recover more quickly. Case in point. This one hadn't been vaccinated for nearly two decades. She was in an environment where she constantly came into contact with it near the end, and only a few out of the 88 people she contacted got it too. They weren't contagious themselves, and their symptoms were so mild, the only reason they knew it was measles was because the CDC specifically investigated them for it.
More personally, I got the Varicella shot and got the disease myself. I didn't get a fever though. And it cleared up over the weekend.
Some vaccines are just more effective than others because, as you'd among the many variables, some viruses mutate faster.
No they're like extra arrows for attempting to hit a bullseye. Once you hit you don't need more arrows, but no one can see the targetto find out if you hit so they just take 3 or 4 shots and say you probably hit it by now.
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kalgon ago
So, which shot is the cancer shot? Vaccine against what, name of the brand, any specific for people to avoid those for them and their families?
WheelTard ago
If you still can't figure out that vaccines are a bad idea...
Jay_Mac ago
Enjoy your polio.
CowWithBeef ago
Enjoy your "rarest disease we vaccinate against". - an idiot
"Enjoy your whooping cough" would be over a million times more accurate snarky criticism, but everyone is brainwashed on vaccines. Only the antivax people have ever engaged in critical thinking on the subject. That doesn't mean there aren't antivax idiots. It means there aren't well informed pro vax people.
jollux ago
I was vaccinated against whooping cough, and I still caught it. Broke a rib from coughing. Yes, I was up to date on my vaccine.
CowWithBeef ago
The biggest myth perpetuated is vaccinated = immune. If that was true, we wouldn't do booster shots. They just usually make your immune system more prepared for the real disease. So when there is a measles outbreak and the media says it's because the people weren't vaccinated, that's not entirely truthful. Vaccination nerfs outbreak rates and severity. It doesn't mean you can go swimming in rivers in India. Don't expect sanity from media companies funded by pharmaceutical companies though.
jollux ago
I'm having trouble reconciling this. If the vaccine isn't making me immune, what is it doing, exactly?
CowWithBeef ago
Its making you possibly immune. Possibly partially immune. And possibly not immune. The more shots you take the bigger the first possiblies get.
jollux ago
Let me try to use an analogy to see if I understand this: Are booster shots like software patches? They update as the virus updates?
Dortex ago
Depends. Flu vaccines are exactly like that since it both mutates quickly and there are several kinds out there. As I understand, though, most other vaccines using booster shots are there because your body does eventually lose whatever resistance it had to the disease in the first place. But even then, you experience a much milder form of the disease and recover more quickly. Case in point. This one hadn't been vaccinated for nearly two decades. She was in an environment where she constantly came into contact with it near the end, and only a few out of the 88 people she contacted got it too. They weren't contagious themselves, and their symptoms were so mild, the only reason they knew it was measles was because the CDC specifically investigated them for it.
More personally, I got the Varicella shot and got the disease myself. I didn't get a fever though. And it cleared up over the weekend.
Some vaccines are just more effective than others because, as you'd among the many variables, some viruses mutate faster.
CowWithBeef ago
No they're like extra arrows for attempting to hit a bullseye. Once you hit you don't need more arrows, but no one can see the targetto find out if you hit so they just take 3 or 4 shots and say you probably hit it by now.